Regents Review Summer 2025

The Regents Review Summer 2025

WELCOME Headteacher’s Welcome

As we reach the end of another successful year at Regents Park Community College, I want to celebrate the many achievements of our students and share some important updates about our staff. Our students have shown great commitment across many activities this year. Our Duke of Edinburgh participants have worked hard on their expeditions and community service. The allotment leaders have done excellent work caring for our growing spaces and teaching others about the environment. During Transition Day, our student mentors did a wonderful job welcoming new Year 7 students. Our careers leaders have provided valuable guidance to fellow students, while our competition winners have brought recognition to the school through their talents. Digital leaders continue to help with technology across the school and our sports leaders have achieved great success in their competitions. We have enjoyed some fantastic educational trips this year. Students experienced German culture during our Munich visit, students also experienced the Spanish culture when we visited Tenerife, had fun at Paulton’s Park, learned about horse racing at Newbury Races and explored higher education opportunities at Southampton University. Celebrating student success is very important to us. Our Year 7 Cinema Experience rewards have been popular, recognising good behaviour and achievement. Our attendance rewards continue to highlight the importance of coming to school regularly. We are particularly proud of our students’ success in the Solent Business Challenge, where they impressed judges with their business ideas. As we move into the new academic year, we have some staffing changes to share. We say goodbye to Mrs Board, who has a promotional post to Curriculum Leader of English in another Southampton school, we know she will do a great job. Miss Robinson has been inspirational in the work she has implemented across the PE

department linked to Student Leadership and we wish her well as she moves up north to a promotional post, where she will continue to find great student leaders. Miss Gilbert-Twigg has moved from our RE department to our geography department, adding a splash of colour and creativity in whatever she does and as she moves back home to a new post, we know she will continue to add her unique vibe to whatever she does. Miss Buckle and Miss Coull have inspired students in our creative art department and are moving to continue their training in other schools. Mr Muller is retiring after supporting the science team and we hope he enjoys all the adventures and challenges that he has planned. We also have changes in Year 7, as Mr Wilson moves to a promotional post at another school. Mrs Wales will be taking over as Head of Year 8 in September. We wish Mr Wilson well and he has worked hard to make sure that Year 7 have had a positive start to RPCC. Miss Harrison will be taking maternity leave and we wish her all the best for this exciting time. Miss Cole will be Head of Year, covering Miss Harrison’s leave. Several members of our wonderful support team are also leaving. Mrs Harris has supported the cleaning team at RPCC for many years and we hope that she enjoys every minute of her retirement, Mrs Kassamali is leaving the LSA team, where she has supported many of our students within the school community. As staff move on to new challenges, we are always pleased to welcome new staff members: Mr Middleton will be joining social sciences and PE, Mr Farnden will be joining English and PE, Miss Vincent will be joining the science team, Miss Halliday will be part of the English team, Mr Van Reenen joins the maths team and Mr Hearmon is our new curriculum leader for science. Mrs Kaur will be working across RE and English. They bring fresh ideas and enthusiasm to our team. Thank you to our whole school community for supporting our students throughout the year.

Mrs S Barnes Headteacher

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